Kay R Jamison
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind now gives us a groundbreaking life of one of the major American poets of the twentieth century that is at the same time a fascinating study of the relationship between manic-depressive (bipolar) illness, creative genius, and character. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry, Robert Lowell (1917-1977) put his manic-depressive illness into the public domain. Now Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison brings her expertise...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss. Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison--who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with a writerly elegance and passion--could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. She looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia. And with her characteristic...
Author
Series
Wen xue ren sheng volume 04
Publisher
Tian xia yuan jian chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
1998
Language
中文
Description
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness. Professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins and foremost authority on manic-depressive illness, Jamison offers a remarkable personal testimony about her own lifelong struggle with manic-depression.
